Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following duties in shot tower to facilitate production of small arms ammunition: Unloads lead pigs from freight car and conveys and stacks them, using electric forklift truck.

• 2) Loads specified proportions of lead and antimony-lead pigs onto conveyor, using electric hoist.

• 3) Opens and closes valves, using metal hook, to direct conveyor flow of scrap shot to designated storage bins at top of shot tower.

• 4) Lights fires under lead melting kettles and dross converter.

• 5) Dumps or shovels scrap lead or dross into kettles or converter.

• 6) Skims dross from molten lead, using skimming ladle.

• 7) Removes dross from converter, using rake and hoe.